Improvement in spring bed-bottoms



Pmmn JUL 41871 i @y @Y @PHQP @En @EMT Lm l UNITED STATES iTren rrIoE.

WILLIAM O. HUBBARD, OF HUBBARDSTON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR rIO HIMSELF,JEROME J. ROBBINS, AND WILLIAM VVYOARNER, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRING BED-BOTTONIS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,712, dated July 4,1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM C. HUBBARD, of the village of Hubbardston,township of North Plains, in the county of Ionia and State of Michigan,have invented a new and improved Mode of Constructing SpringBed-Bottoms, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, referen ce being had to the accompanyingdrawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the manner of supporting theslats or hanging the saine to the head and foot cross-pieces of thebed-bottoni.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation niore minutely.

Figure 1 is the bed-bottom in plan, showing the head and footcross-pieces H H in position; also, slats S S S; also, upper end ofrubber webbing-loops a e a as they inclose the wooden supporting-pins PP I.

Fig. 2 is a detached View of one of the crosspieces H, as seen from thetop, showing upper end of rubber webbing-loops a a a as they incloseWooden supporting-pins I) P Fig. 3 is a detached view of one of theslats S, showing the mortise through it at D, through which inortise therubber webbing-loop passes when in position.

. Fig. 4 isa side elevation ofthe bedstead-rail It, legs L L 5 also, across-section of head and foot cross-pieces H H, to which the Slat S isattached by means of the rubber webbing-loops orY e, as further shown bythe red line, and passing through the inortise c c in head a-nd footcross-pieces H H, and inclosing wooden supporting-pins I) P, the pinsresting in a countersink the length of pin on ltop ot' cross-piece;also, showing loop passing through nloi'tise in slat S and inclosingwooden supporting-inns I P on under side of slat.

Fig. 5 is an end eleva-tion of the bed-bottom, illustrating the edge ofone ofthe cross-pieces H and 'end of slats S S S, also, upper and lowerends of rubber webbingloops c a as they inclose wooden supportingpins l).P P, both on top of crosspiece H and under side of slats S S S. In thecenter' of this iigure I have shown two sla-ts, S S, as they wouldappear with a load upon them, and the rubber webbing-loops a a stretchedto their full length.

What I cla-im as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The inortise I) through the slat S, through the head and footcross-pieces H I-I, with wooden supporting-pin l? resting in countersinkon top of cross-pieces, and wooden supporting-pin crossing inortise 011under side of slat, substantially in the manner and for the purpose asherein described and set forth.

IILLIAM C. HUBBARD.

Titnesses J'. W. MILES, B. G. GooLEY.

